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Q6600->Q9550 worth it?

Sounds like a fair bit of hassle for minimal gain to me.

Your next upgrade should be i5 quad, i7 or better IMO.
 
A good Q9550 will hit 4ghz ( saying that a very good Q6600 will also )

You could sell your Q6600 for ~ £80

Buy a Q9550 for ~ £110

A £30 gamble for possibly .5ghz , up to you really.

You would get the most benefit from the Q9550 on a P45 chipset board, what mobo do you currently have ?
 
I was wondering about this upgrade myself. I was tempted to go for the best quad I could find, but I haven't really found anything that my current Q6600 setup can't handle. I just want to upgrade for the sake of it I guess, good job I'm broke atm so I can't waste the money :P
 
easyrider said:
I don't think you would notice that much.

Get a i7 920 and it will blow your mind!
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No, I don't think it's going to be a mind blowing experience. Now Athlon XP -> core2duo was mind blowing. :D But to be fair i7 memory throughput kicks ass, that's the only significant boost that I can see

q6600 -> q9550 = generally a small insignificant bump upto 10-25% depending on application.

q9550 -> i7 920 = 25% bump which to me is not worth it.
 
Subliminal Aura said:
No, I don't think it's going to be a mind blowing experience. Now Athlon XP -> core2duo was mind blowing. :D But to be fair i7 memory throughput kicks ass, that's the only significant boost that I can see

q6600 -> q9550 = generally a small insignificant bump upto 10-25% depending on application.

q9550 -> i7 920 = 25% bump which to me is not worth it.
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I don't know...I have a 920 at 4ghz and is staggering how much faster in Adobe premier it is over my old 3.6ghz Q6600

especially when outputting to Adobe Media Encoder
 
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Depends what you find mind blowing really. If all you care about is gaming, the Q6600 is still mostly adequate. For encoding an i7 will help.
 
Going from q6600 to q9550 should make a bigger difference than going Q9550 to i7.

However, the biggest (and most expensive) jump of all will be Q6600 to i7. ;)
 
easyrider said:
IN what then?

Video editing and audio editing for me has seen huge gains with loads of open real time filters running etc...
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Easy easy easy - as I mentioned, the gains in encoding can be almost twice as quick using an i7 but across the board averaging all applications - clock for clock it's 25%.

There are plenty of stats on the net, you know where to look :o

Going to step out - Seems like the i7 Nazi are in the house :cool: :D
 
jbloggs said:
I would be inclined to forget about going to a Q9550 and when you are able go to i7...
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I would say the same. I don't think it would really be worth going from a Q6600 to a Q9550, and for the time being I think a Q6600 would probably be enough.
 
i think you will only see a difference if you manage to clock q9550 much higher than your q6600, but if you get a i7 920 even at stock it will be faster than your overclocked q6600.

check out our results in the fritz and super pi benchmark thread to see what i mean.
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18108128

my q6600 running @ 3.5 scores in there will be pretty much the same as your performance and you will see how much faster the i7 920's are once you get clocking them and how similar the q9550 is at similar speeds.
 
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